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Årbog. Om amerikansk forsvars- og sikkerhedspolitik, 1995-1996. Fra indholdet: MacGregor Knox: What History can tell us about the "New Strategic Environment". Brian R. Sullivan: American Strategic Policy for an Uncertain Future. Eliot A. Cohen: How to think about Defense Robert W. Gaskin: Crack-up: The Unraveling of American's Military. Andrew F-Krepinewich: The Clinton Defense Strategy. Colin S. Gray: The Second Nuclear Age: Insecurity, Proliferation, and the Control of Arms. Mackubin T. Owens: Strategy and Resources: Trends in the U.S. Defense Budget. John R. Galvin and Jeffrey S. Lantis: Peacekeeping and Power Projection? Conventional Forces for the Twenty-first Century. Lawrence Freedman: Great Powers no more.
A comprehensive, nonpartisan review and analysis of the major issues and trends in American national security policy
A former Army officer and Gulf War veteran takes a critical look at the adverse effects of downsizing on the U.S. Army. Though executed with compassion and precision, downsizing undermines morale and threatens the Army at its core. David McCormick demonstrates how the Army's experience in downsizing is instructive for all organizations--government, corporate, and nonprofit alike.
Discusses the contemporary role of nuclear weapons in international relations
Examines the rapidly changing role of diplomacy.
This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War. The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated. As this book shows, the debate and subsequent policy choices would often appear to reflect neither the particular requirements of the international system for US security at any given time, nor indeed the current capabilities of BMD technology. Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy traces the evolution of policy from the zero-sum debates that surrounded the Strategic Defense Initiative as Ronald Reagan left office, up to the relative political consensus that exists around a limited BMD deployment in 2012. The book shows how and why policy evolved in such a complex manner during this period, and explains the strategic reasoning and political pressures shaping BMD policy under each of the presidents who have held office since 1989. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates how relative advancements in technology, combined with growth in the perceived missile threat, gradually shifted the contours and rhythm of the domestic missile defence debate in the US towards acceptance and normalisation. This book will be of much interest to students of missile defence and arms control, US national security policy, strategic studies and international relations in general.
The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 is the most important legislation to affecting U.S. national defense in the last 50 years. This act resulted from frustration in Congress and among certain military officers concerning what they believed to be the poor quality of military advice available to civilian decision-makers. It also derived from the U.S. military's perceived inability to conduct successful joint or multi-service operations. The act, passes after four years of legislative debate, designated the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the principal military advisor to the President and sought to foster greater cooperation among the military services. Goldwater-Nichols marks the latest attempt to balance competing tendencies within the Department of Defense, namely centralization versus decentralization and geographic versus functional distributions of power. As a result of the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has achieved prominence, but his assignment is somewhat contradictory: the spokesman and thus the advocate for the Commander in Chief, while simultaneously the provider of objective advice to the President. While the act did succeed in strengthening the CINCs' authority and in contributing to the dramatic U.S. achievements in the Gulf War, the air and ground campaigns revealed weaknesses in the CINCs' capability to plan joint operations. In addition, the increased role of the military in ad hoc peacekeeping operations has challenged the U.S. military's current organizational structure for the quick deployment of troops from the various services. Rapid technological advances and post-Cold War strategic uncertainty also complicate the U.S. military's organizational structure.
This book examines how the US Army rebuilt itself after the Vietnam War and how this has effected US intervention policy after the Cold War.
... dedicated to the advancement and understanding of those principles and practices, military and political, which serve the vital security interests of the United States.